1. Jah Wobble became known to a wider audience as the original bass player in Public Image Ltd in the late 1970s and early 1980s; he left the band after two albums.
23 Facts About Jah Wobble
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Jah Wobble is a long-time friend of John Lydon, whom he had met in the 1970s at London's Kingsway College.
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Jah Wobble acquired his stage name through the drunken, mumbled version of Wardle's name by Sid Vicious, which Wobble kept because "people would never forget it".
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Jah Wobble's bass playing drew heavily on dub, which has remained an important feature of his music.
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Jah Wobble has stated that the first PiL album was recorded so quickly due in part to the bassist's altercations with a sound engineer and men at a nearby pub.
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Jah Wobble has dismissed claims accusing him of extreme malice, such as setting fire to the former drummer for The Fall, Karl Burns, while Burns was session drumming for PiL.
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Jah Wobble co-wrote and contributed bass and drums to PiL's second album Metal Box, which was released in 1979.
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Jah Wobble then recorded his debut album The Legend Lives On.
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Jah Wobble released at least one single during his period as a member of PiL: His 1978 single "Dreadlock Don't Deal in Wedlock" in which he recites Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussycat" and finishes with the line, 'love and marriage is like ice cream and cabbage.
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The post-PiL years saw Jah Wobble collaborating with Can members Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit on Czukay's solo projects and Full Circle.
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Jah Wobble then did a variety of day jobs, whilst continuing to perform and record his music in what spare time he had.
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Armed with a live recording of a concert he had made with a new line-up of musicians during a European tour in 1988, Jah Wobble travelled to New York City's New Music Seminar in 1989 to get back into the music industry.
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Jah Wobble was able to secure an eleventh-hour record deal with a small European record label.
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Jah Wobble hit his commercial peak with 1991's Rising Above Bedlam.
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Jah Wobble's 1994 album Take Me to God was influenced by world music genres and contributions from a variety of artists of diverse cultural backgrounds, including Baaba Maal, Dolores O'Riordan, and Chaka Demus, and was a critical and commercial success.
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Jah Wobble's music has spanned a number of genres, including ambient music and dance music, and in 2003, reworkings of traditional English folk songs.
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Jah Wobble appeared on the group's self-titled debut album as well as the EP One, both of which were released on Atkins' Invisible Records label, but subsequently left the group after declining to participate in their tour of the US.
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In 2011, Jah Wobble collaborated with Julie Campbell, alias Warp Records artist LoneLady in a project called Psychic Life.
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Jah Wobble has collaborated with the British ambient group Marconi Union, the results of which were released as an album called Anomic on 30 Hertz records in June 2013.
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Jah Wobble studied part-time for four years at Birkbeck, University of London, graduating in 2000 with an upper second-class honours degree in the humanities.
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Jah Wobble's autobiography, entitled Memoirs of a Geezer: Music, Life, Mayhem, was released in September 2009.
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Jah Wobble has four children, including music producer Natalie Wardle from his first marriage, and two sons with his second wife, the Chinese-born guzheng player and harpist Zi Lan Liao.
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Jah Wobble was brought up a Roman Catholic but later converted to Buddhism.